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I'm John Batchel.

Iran, the suspect nuclear weapons program of Iran.

I welcome Andrea Stricker, a research fellow and deputy director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's

Non-Proliferation and Bio-Defense Program program to help us understand where we are right now

as it appears there is the beginnings, beginning, beginning of conversation between the United States and to Iran,

perhaps involving other players, but those are the principles, and what is to be done about

the suspicion these many years that Iran is working on a nuclear weapon.

Andrea, a very good evening to you.

Thank you very much.

We can only establish what must happen in order for Iran to return to the community of nations. Right now,

the anecdotes are that Iran's economy is broken. The currency real is gone to some impossible

level per dollar. The people of Iran are suffering. We can see that. Sanctions regime is

crushing, but it will get worse unless and until.

So let us establish what is to be done. You write with your colleagues that there must be a

verifiable dismantling of all of the assets and equipment. What will that look like? And who would

verify? Good evening to you,

Andrea. Good evening, John. Thank you for having me. So what my colleagues and I have recommended

is a deal that would remove the Iran nuclear threat for good, permanently, verifiably. And that kind of a deal

would be achieved via a serious coercive diplomacy by the Trump administration and backed by a credible U.S. and Israeli military threat.

There's growing concern, though, based on some of the statements by Trump's lead negotiator Steve Whitkoff, that the president may accept some kind of a deal that leaves intact Iran's uranium

enrichment, weaponization, and missile delivery capabilities. In essence, reversing his

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